From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sat Jun 29 2002 - 17:45:39 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote:
>At 09:36 PM 6/28/02 -0700, spike wrote:
>
>>So what happens if you get a large group of immigrants
>>who are genetically dissimilar enough that the indigenous
>>population has little sympathy for the immigrants...
>>
>
>To a non-USian, this question contains such strange default assumptions.
>But even a Homelander might observe that the genetically dissimilar Koreans
>who get their shops trashed during riots in the USA are not worthless lazy
>asses.
>
Agreed. My point is not that those genetically dissimilar from indigenous
populace share any characteristic. It was that in general, humans,
like other apes, display more malice toward genetically less similar
competitors of their own species.
Your observation that the genetically dissimilar Koreans suffered
during the LA riots was forcibly demonstrated by a photo that
showed up in Time magazine. When the rioting broke out, a
shop owner took a sheet of plywood and painted the words
BLACK OWNED BUSINESS and placed it in front of his
store. The looters went on down the street and hit the
Korean owned stores.
My original question is more towards European socialist systems.
Seems to me that any welfare system eventually will be overwhelmed
by human nature. Europeans might attempt the hopeless task
of restricting immigration. I was trying to figure out why immigration
is suddenly becoming such a big issue in Europe. Damien, why is it?
Is it one of those silly "preserve the culture" kinds of things? Would
this not be a better world if every nation had people of all kinds?
Does not the mixing of people bring out the best in everyone? Then
everyone can be whatever they want, with less societal pressure to
be any one thing or believe any certain way.
spike
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